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Oct 12, 2024 9:23 pm
Perfect Draw? That sounds really interesting, I like niche genre TTRPGs like that.
Oct 13, 2024 11:13 am
Celestine says:
Age of FATE: Tabletop 4X - This is a bit of an on-again, off-again project that I tinker with in the background. Largely inspired by Age of Wonder and Legacy - Life Among the Ruins, the idea is to create kind of a hex-crawler with each space being a FATE location with aspects and such. Each player plays a Faction Leader with full Stunts, Fate Points, etc., but can build lesser units, and as each player explores the setting they'll bump into each other and vie for resources, strike up alliances, and all that good stuff.

Leaving aside that I keep tearing the mechanical end of the whole thing apart and rebuilding it, I'm not actually sure there's an audience for something *that* zoomed out though.
You should have a look at Wrath of the Autarch, based on Fate.

EDIT: I also created my own set of rules to play this kind of games with Fate. Happy to share with everyone, although it's in Spanish (but I guess you can run it through Google Translate and it'll be good enough):

FATE Kingdoms
Celestine says:
Multiversal FATE - Thing about me? I love a genre mash-up. So, inspired by things like Lords of Gossamer and Shadow (never read the books Amber is based on, which has served as a bit of a barrier to entry), a game of vast interdimensional conspiracies perpetuated by plane jumping immortals has been on my back burner for a while. To facilitate the broadest number of character concepts, a generic toolbox system like FATE seems best. This is one of those game ideas where it'd be important to get those "Crossover" Aspects to tie the PC's together, but it'd be pretty wide open for character concepts. PC party of a Victorian vampire hunter, a reincarnated slime, a wild mage and mecha-Lincoln? Sure, why the heck not?
I love this. Some time ago I was abou to start a very similar game, based on the Infinity Patrol (from the GURPS setting "Infinite Worlds"), but using Cortex Prime as the ruleset instead. It also allows for a wide variety of options, just as Fate.
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Oct 13, 2024 2:55 pm
Legendary_Sidekick says:
badbaron says:
I'd also love a system or game set in South Asia using historic South Asian folklore rather the European based but don't feel I am comfortable enough culturally to get it to feel right if I try to GM it.
I know the feeling—and I actually lived in Southeast Asia (Hong Kong) and my wife is from there. But aside from drawing the occasional kung fu gal clad in a qipao, I don’t use much from her culture in my games because I fear I won’t do it justice.

Well… that and any game I run is like a B-movie at best.
Are you thinking more a fantastical/folklore setting (kitsune, kappa, oni, etc) , or something in a historical period, like samurai in the Edo period or the rise of the shogunate? Or perhaps Chinese wuxia sword and sorcery equivalents? Wuxia for more classic swords and heroes, xianxia if it also incorporates fairies and spirits and demons (think Monkey King).

Or something modern and beyond, Hongkong action adventure with cops and triads, or cyberpunk set in Chiba or Tokyo?

Admittedly the examples above are north Asia. By south Asia are you thinking of the mythologies of Thailand, Phillippines, Indonesia, etc? Sina Una is a D&D 5e (2014) setting in the Phillippines, and Gubat Banwa is a whole up and coming system and setting.

Asking because I hail from South East Asia, and do love to play and run East Asian settings as well!
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Oct 13, 2024 8:02 pm
bowlofspinach says:
Perfect Draw does sound like a fun game. I have been thinking about how one could do a Yugioh-esque story in a TTRPG, so maybe I should look into that one
LightOfMidnight says:
Perfect draw definitely sounds fun.
bravend says:
If you do this in a pbp, please invite me!!! I'm obsessed with Yugioh!!! (Duel Monsters but yknow)
Dracostern says:
Perfect Draw? That sounds really interesting, I like niche genre TTRPGs like that.
Huhn. Seems like I should look into putting together a proper interest check for that. Good to know.
gnomius says:
You should have a look at Wrath of the Autarch, based on Fate.
Looks neat, I'll dig through the couch cushions and see if I can give it a proper read. Honestly, I probably should've just put Legacy - Life Among the Ruins on the list by itself, it's an interesting game and more cooperatively tuned than what I'm scheming. I'm just not sure the generation spanning narrative would survive pbp speeds.
gnomius says:
Celestine says:
Multiversal FATE
I love this. Some time ago I was abou to start a very similar game, based on the Infinity Patrol (from the GURPS setting "Infinite Worlds"), but using Cortex Prime as the ruleset instead. It also allows for a wide variety of options, just as Fate.
Alas, I don't know Cortex Prime hardly at all. I get the impression that if I were more comfortable with Savage Worlds, that'd get more nibbles. I just find Fate's Aspect system to be so clean and versatile, so I'm attracted to it. Though I feel like I always want more Fate Points to use setting Aspects and the like.
Oct 15, 2024 6:59 pm
GeneCortess says:
Hmm. Something with the Walking Dead would be neat to try. Eberron anything is good (5e). I like a survival adventure. (Even sharks. Snakes are cool.)
I’m in a GURPS zombie campaign, it’s not gonna be zombie themed for all of the campaign tho, the setting changes, but a chunk of it is a zombie apocalypse.
Oct 15, 2024 7:26 pm
Options are nice.
Oct 15, 2024 7:33 pm
GeneCortess says:
Options are nice.
It just started, if you feel like it, you can add me on discord and check if you want to join, can’t confirm anything on the GMs behalf, but it’s a fine possibility.
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Oct 16, 2024 9:05 pm
Is it possible to have a setting like the movie 'Fury'? A tank crew (or multiple tanks in a unit together) working together to make it through the war.
Oct 17, 2024 7:10 am
Kingphantom says:
Is it possible to have a setting like the movie 'Fury'? A tank crew (or multiple tanks in a unit together) working together to make it through the war.
Now that is an interesting concept...
Oct 17, 2024 7:20 am
There's is Flying Circus: Chariots of Steel expansion (maybe its standalone? ), but many say it's very, very crunchy. Haven't read or checked it deeper, but looks like exactly what you are looking for.
Oct 17, 2024 2:52 pm
I'd love to play Transit a PbtA setting where everyone is a spaceship's AI.

I'd also love to get into the Tin Tin shenanigans of a Troubleshooter game.
Oct 17, 2024 3:34 pm
ToDream says:
I'd also love to get into the Tin Tin shenanigans of a Troubleshooter game.
That one has been sitting on my shelf for ages. Never gotten a chance to play it so far. Would definitely love getting a Troubleshooter game going, but I fear it is a bit obscure.
Oct 23, 2024 3:13 am
Troubleshooters thirded! Awesome game, have not yet played...
Oct 27, 2024 2:07 am
I have a hankering for an old-fashioned RAW AD&D1ed game, but I could not DM my way out of a box with a razor blade and a blowtorch. Anyone considering running one?
Oct 27, 2024 6:56 am
Avraham says:
I have a hankering for an old-fashioned RAW AD&D1ed game, but I could not DM my way out of a box with a razor blade and a blowtorch. Anyone considering running one?
I am considering running Anthony Huso's "Castle of the Silver Prince" using RAW AD&D 1E (or at least Huso's interpretation of RAW). Just deciding whether I have the bandwidth to run it alongside my other games.
Oct 27, 2024 7:39 am
Harrigan says:
Troubleshooters thirded! Awesome game, have not yet played...
I just bought the rulebook for that... Interested in exploring this new take on a d100 system.
Oct 27, 2024 7:46 am
Also intrigued in running some of these well crafted, self contained books by Osprey games, at some point:

-Those dark places (industrial Sci Fi)
-Paleomythic (stone age fantasy)
-Hard City (noir, hardboiled gumshoes)

Really liking this publisher's 'house style' so far.
Oct 27, 2024 10:46 am
Dr_B says:
Also intrigued in running some of these well crafted, self contained books by Osprey games, at some point:
I didn't know about this publisher, but after skimming through their webpage, they do look interesting. Do you know what kind of system they have for rules?
Oct 27, 2024 5:05 pm
Burbage says:
Avraham says:
I have a hankering for an old-fashioned RAW AD&D1ed game, but I could not DM my way out of a box with a razor blade and a blowtorch. Anyone considering running one?
I am considering running Anthony Huso's "Castle of the Silver Prince" using RAW AD&D 1E (or at least Huso's interpretation of RAW). Just deciding whether I have the bandwidth to run it alongside my other games.
IN, when and if you do.
Oct 27, 2024 5:28 pm
WhiteDwarf says:
Burbage says:
Avraham says:
I have a hankering for an old-fashioned RAW AD&D1ed game, but I could not DM my way out of a box with a razor blade and a blowtorch. Anyone considering running one?
I am considering running Anthony Huso's "Castle of the Silver Prince" using RAW AD&D 1E (or at least Huso's interpretation of RAW). Just deciding whether I have the bandwidth to run it alongside my other games.
IN, when and if you do.
Likewise!
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